We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
